We had such a fun time at the “Hello, Autumn!” webinar! We released new music (including two new Halloween series), and introduced Jason Sifford as the newest ComposeCreate® composer! We decided to do something a bit different for Idea Share […]
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Composing is Like Alligator Wrestling I’ve been composing during this slow month of December. Does that sound glamorous? Maybe so, and I don’t want to minimize the ecstasy that happens when a piece is started or when a piece is
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Trying something new as a teacher, composer, artist, or entrepreneur? I love this beautiful wisdom from Machiavelli: And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain
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There are no words necessary for this thing of beauty and inspiration. i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill—more of each than you have—inspiration, work, growing older, patience,
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Here’s some good advice and things to remember from Ira Glass, the host of This American Life. http://youtu.be/BI23U7U2aUY
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I have read many theological discussions and defenses of the arts, and I am always torn in my response to them. For one thing, it saddens me when we feel the need to justify art by making it serve some
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While this is not necessarily inspirational, it does remind me that it is normal if the process of composing is often difficult, tiring, and taxing. It also made me chuckle. Here is a reflection on writing from Gene Fowler: Writing
At a recent conference, Betty Todd Smith, a wonderful conference presenter said, “Children never tire of repetition. It is we adults who hate the monotony of repetition.” That sentence really struck a chord with me as a piano teacher. I
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Here is a poem by Kansan Amy Fleury that I am currently mulling over and is this weeks’ featured Inspiration Point. Spiritus Mundi Listen around to the long sentence the land is saying, to the wind rumoring through the
The Latin phrase sic transit gloria mundi means ‘thus passes the glory of the world’. Watts shortened it because his subject ‘was not so much the passing of the glory of the world but rather the end of all human
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Ignite the Spark!
August kick-off webinar
Join hundreds of teachers at this energizing webinar where we unveil new Fuzzies, Color, Beautiful Wonders, Adventure, & video game music! Plus stickers, new catalog, organization & teaching ideas!
